After being open since 1972, the Drake Performance and Event Center closed earlier this year and the theatre department moved into a new facility.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The start of the fall semester marked a new school year for many students, and, for the students ofThe new building is located along College Drive in the heart of the campus’ burgeoning arts district.
The vibrant new four-story building is home to a proscenium theater, a thrust black box theater, design spaces, rehearsal studios, acting classrooms, an expansive scene shop, a lighting studio and an impressive new costume studio. The building also houses many new editing and studio spaces for the film and media arts students.The students are breaking in the new proscenium theater space this weekend with the department's first play in the new building.
"We're really taking advantage of the new building, the new theater," said Emily Broski, a fifth year theatre and psychology major who portrays older sister Agnes in the play."We have so many special effects, so many lighting effects, so many...crazy monsters, crazy costumes - everything that you could want in a DnD crazy fantasy show, I think we have it."
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